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acquedotti INGL 2016:acquedotti INGL 5.0 24/09/19 10.41 Pagina 1 Arco M di Travertino or 850 years since the building of the first APPIA ANTICA THE SEVEN REGIONAL PARK Faqueduct until the interruption caused by AQUEDUCTS AREA the Goth’s invasion of Rome in 537a.D., the city was provided with a progressively The areas of the Seven Tombe Latine de Aqueducts and Tor Fiscale are improved waterworks system, which was no ria PEDESTRIAN et free and accessible every day. TRAILS match, for its abundance and quality, for any em D M The information point and bicycle other city in the world. Via PUNTO renting are open on Sundays only. INFORMATIVO i Porta Furba The Casale Ristoro is open Tor Fiscale In the beginning, table decrease and the city’s CASALE from friday to sunday and holidys. RISTORO M Reservation PUBLIC AREAS water was collected in a administrative inefficiency, [email protected] network of underground made reparation and V Numidio Quadraro ia A passages, while surface maintenance works p www.parcoappiaantica.it p water was collected in become rare and partial. ia ENTRANCES N ro M u a large brick basins. Large Parts fell down and o T r v o d a r a Lucio Sestio Population growth and the sprouting water created F u i Q s l Giulio Agricola larger quantity of water many swampy areas in c e a V d ia l needed to provide with Roman countryside, but e ia Tu V sc M ola water fountains and the great arches that made Torre na del Fiscale thermal baths in the Rome’s landscape famous Villa delle V patricians’ villas, made it stood the test of time and Vignacce ia L necessary to exploit of man. The use of the em on M sources far away from the aqueducts was limited to ia ACQUEDOTTO Subaugusta city and to build large those used in churches or FELICE PUNTO aqueducts, whose projects temples. Some ditches Fiu me i INFORMATIVO a had obviously to cope with were dug to collect water, A an lm Via Lemonia ol ta on sc cca the land’s varying altitude but basically Romans used e u pa na . T M S to keep the right pipelines’ for over 1000 years the ria n rre Ma co To a ir Cinecittà di angle. So the path could Tevere’s unhealthy waters. cqu C Via run underground or Only at the end of 16th A sometimes be in open air, century Romans saw a Casale in trenches dug at land working aqueduct again, Roma Vecchia level or in elevated thanks to Sixtus V, called THE SEVEN Casale structures, such as those of by the citizens “er papa Casalino del Sellaretto ia ecch the Aquedotto Caludio. tosto” (the tough Pope) Acqua Felice a V om Six of the ancient Rome’s for his energy. di R V a Villa dei i l ia a l V A i Settebassi eleven aqueducts run in After the historic g AQUEDUCTS AND p p e ia R the Park’s area: Anio minimum in the Middle ACQUEDOTTO P a ig i ACQUA MARCIA Vetus, Marcia, Tepula, Ages (17.000 people), n n a n te A o l i Julia, Anio Novus. Two of Rome’s population started li d a F i u V e a r TOR FISCALE them, Tepula and Julia, to grow back, so the l r C o o v took their waters from building of the Acquedotto i i F p a e p r A r sources in the Colli Albani, Felice (named after the o ACQUEDOTTO a v i i while the others from the Pope’s original name) was V a CLAUDIO high path of the Aniene started: completed in less V ia river or from the than 5 years it is 28.7 km G a Simbruini and Prenestini long, 8 of which elevated. m PARCO ia e mountains’ sources. The area surrounding the n ell REGIONALE a nn Rome’s decadence marks aqueduct was left in that pa DELL’APPIA Ca V Via the highest development state of abandonment that ia ANTICA A point of its waterworks appealed to many artists pp Sede del Parco ia system; the Baths’ and tourists in the Via Appia Antica 42, An ti decadence, the population following centuries. tel 065126314 ca www.parcoappiaantica.it acquedotti INGL 2016:acquedotti INGL 5.0 24/09/19 10.41 Pagina 5 Via Prenestina Porta S. Sebastiano during Acquedotto nclosed by the districts of SEDE DEL PARCO THE SEVEN Felice’s building in 1585 . Via C Cinecittà and Quarto Miglio, asilin AQUEDUCTS E a Aqua Tepula. Placed over o AREA DEGLI between the two important arteries b m lo ACQUEDOTTI o the Acquedotto Marcio it C Anio Vetus. It is the Park’s . which are the Appia Nuova and C ia Via was built by the consuls V Tusco most ancient aqueduct, V lana ia the Tuscolana, crossed by the lay- A V the first to be built Cepio and Longinus in p i p a A ia na A gn n in following modern ideas 125b.C. Its waters, ti a out of the ancient Via Latina, the ca characteristic of this part V ia that allowed to carry coming from the Colli A pp of the Roman ia area of the Aqueducts up to the G.R.A. N water from areas as far Albani volcanic area, uo countryside. Just think va as the valley of the were warm. V Torre del Fiscale represents the ia that the aqueduct’s A r Aniene River. Built d e a highest point is 28 t remnant of a stretch of Roman in a between 272 and Aqua Julia. Built by consul meters high, like a 9- 269b.C. thanks to part Agrippa in 33b.C. and countryside which once joined the floor building. Plinius, of Pyrrhus’ spoils of war, named after Caius Julius remarking the structure’s Alban Hills to the gates of the city. lower ones, still rise THE APPIA ANTICA it features a 64 km long Caesar Ottavianus, soon above the area and magnificence and the REGIONAL PARK (mostly underground) to become emperor On the first of the two It is a protected area establi - arches’ height that together with secular meandering path. Augustus, it carried points where the arches pines and remains of shed in 1988 by a regional supplied every part of water coming from the law. The area includes the the city, stated that of the aqueducts of irrigation. Along with ancient suburban villas Claudio and Anio Novus. Squarciarelli sources, true crossroad of vast portion of the Agro nothing was worthier of Claudius and Marcius such as the Vignacce Romano crossed by the first Started by Caligula in near Grottaferrata, and ARome’s waterworks street and sewers, the admiration in the whole intersected, taking and the Sette Bassi, 16 km of the ancient consular 38a.D. and finished by merged it with water network, it takes its making of aqueducts way (from Porta San world. advantage of its raised name from the was carefully followed, make the whole area a Sebastiano to the Appia his successor Claudius in coming from the Tepula height, a tower was very scenic place. 52a.D. , they cross the to improve its quality. impressive remains of both to meet citizen’s Nuova crossing at Acqua Marcia. This erected in the XIII Frattocchie); the area of the Park together in the Rome’s famous hygienic needs and to aqueduct, started by century, nowadays Caffarella Valley; the same arhced structure. Felice. It was built by the aqueducts system. Six of affirm the Empire’s praetor Quinto Marcio in known as the Torre archaeological complex Both took their water Pope Sixtus V between the ancient city’s eleven culture: the aqueducts of Via Latina tombs; the 44b.C. and completed in del Fiscale , from the name form the basin of the 1585 and 1590 to aqueducts ran across had to stand up to the area close to the Tuscolana about two years, of its owner in the XVII way in which houses many valley of the Aniene provide with water this area, forming a standards of “firmitas, conveyed water coming century, Filippo Foppi, remains of the important River. At Via Latina’s Rome’s hilly parts, which system that allowed, venustas, utilitas”, i. e. from the sources on the who was the pontifical republican and imperial 7th mile, near to had no aqueducts after solidity, beauty and age aqueducts. Via Valeria to the treasurer, that is the during the city’s peak Capannelle, the Anio the decadence of development period, a usefulness. A large part Capitol. Its 91 km long “revenue officer”. The Novus’ path ran together waterworks in the tower, about thirty water-flow of 13 m 3 per of the pipes cannot be pipeline started with Acqua Claudia’s Middle Ages. Its water metres in height, is built seen, either because they San Polo underground from the second. To all of this we pipe, and they both came from the Pantano in the typical masonry F sources and sprouted at must add the run underground, or e iu r m emerged from the Borghese sources along e e technique of the XIII v A the so called “Roma Acquedotto Felice, built because sometimes more e ni T en the Prenestina way and e ground first on a century out of blocks of e Saracinesco Vecchia” farmhouse, by the Popes during the recent structures have m went as far as the u continuous structure i na Tivoli tufa; it is quadrangular F a where it mingled with Renaissance and still been built over the older nt me Castel Madama and then on a long Fontana del Mosè in in shape, with little No Varebia the Aqua Tepula and ones, as the Acquedotto ia rtina used today for V Via Tibu series of arches Largo Santa Susanna.